Windows NT/2000/XP Boot Disk

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If I create a bootable disk in Windows XP using My Computer
does it format the floppy with the NTFS 5.0 file system?
Also what files are required for boot on an Windows XP formatted boot disk?

Professor Falken

 

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No - it uses the same version of FAT that has always been used.

To just 'boot' all you need are the usual things that are automaticaly put on such a disk - i.e. you are creating an MSDOS boot disk.

If you want to boot/install XP that is entirely a different thing.

EDIT: See here for info on this - you need 6 floppies for this!

Harry.

 

A couple of things to consider...with floppy drives going the way of the dodo bird, some computers would have about as much use for a floppy diskette as a fish would have with a bicycle. Consider options that include booting from a CD/DVD and flash drive.

 

If you format a floppy under XP it will format with fat12 as usual. But there is no switch (as in DOS) to format /system.
You don't neet to. Just copy the files ntldr, ntdetect and boot.ini to the disk.
It wil start.

 

Great Advice thanks guys

Professor Falken